Defeat poses questions for England

Back home in front a television in leafy Leicestershire, England's new team manager Martin Johnson will have been contemplating exactly how big a task he has taken on following the 37-20 defeat.

"It is pretty embarrassing sitting here as defence coach having conceded the tries that we did," Ford said after the game.

"I don't think we got busted once in those areas during the Six Nations but here we were ripped apart," he added.

"It is a bit of structure, a bit of one-on-one misses. It is definitely something we have to fix. The one thing we were pretty confident on was our set-piece defence and it was dreadful."

There were flashes of the bright new dawn for English rugby spoken about with such enthusiasm in the build-up to the game, when tour manager Rob Andrew named a side featuring 11 changes and with an average age of 26.

But those flashes were largely extinguished when the All Blacks rediscovered their swagger to score 34 points in 26 minutes either side of half-time.

Had Topsy Ojo not marked his debut with two opportunist tries at the end of each period and, had New Zealand not clicked into cruise control for most of the final half hour, the damage could have been far greater.

"Fundamentally we made too many mistakes just before half-time and just after. We allowed the All Blacks too much easy possession and we allowed them too many easy points," said Andrew.

"We are learning about players all the time. Test match rugby is a brutal place and if you make simple mistakes you will be punished, no matter how much hard work you do in other areas. There is a lesson for all the players."